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right back in the grip of fear. Fear of the unknown is what keeps us in the bondage of settling for far less than we were created to be.
The truth is, you don’t have to know exactly how it will all come together, and I can promise you that you won’t! Your biggest responsibility in this process of becoming is to choose to say yes to your purpose every day without putting a cap on your dreams.
Everything else will come to you. Why? Because as you begin to say yes to your true purpose and give yourself permission to live free from the prison you’ve put yourself in, you will begin to see your goals and dreams with ever increasing clarity. The fact that you want to see them is all it takes for them to begin to appear. The more you say yes, the more will be revealed. You’ve only been stuck all this time because you made a decision to leave your dreams and goals behind. You lost your ‘why’ when you traded your purpose for something that seemed easier or more secure.
Compromise will always be offered up to you, so get used to that. But as you continue to live a life intent on fulfilling your purpose, the voices of the things you used to settle for will begin to sound more ridiculous.
It’s like the guy who pushed against all odds to become the first entrepreneur in his family. He started out cutting his neighbor’s lawn, and now ten years later he has seven crews who are responsible for all the golf-course properties in his town. What would happen if someone walked up to him and offered him a secure management job with an hourly pay rate? If
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